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Composed image retrieval (CIR) is the task of retrieving specific images by using a query that involves both a reference image and a relative caption. Most existing CIR models adopt the late-fusion strategy to combine visual and language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yang Bai , Xinxing Xu , Yong Liu , Salman Khan , Fahad Khan , Wangmeng Zuo , Rick Siow Mong Goh , Chun-Mei Feng

Retrieval is being redefined by agentic AI, demanding multimodal reasoning beyond conventional similarity-based paradigms. Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) exemplifies this shift as each query combines a reference image with textual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Zhongyu Yang , Wei Pang , Yingfang Yuan

In tissue characterization and cancer diagnostics, multimodal imaging has emerged as a powerful technique. Thanks to computational advances, large datasets can be exploited to discover patterns in pathologies and improve diagnosis. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Eva Breznik , Elisabeth Wetzer , Joakim Lindblad , Nataša Sladoje

Fine-grained text-to-image retrieval aims to retrieve a fine-grained target image with a given text query. Existing methods typically assume that each training image is accurately depicted by its textual descriptions. However, textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Zehong Ma , Hao Chen , Wei Zeng , Limin Su , Shiliang Zhang

Retrieving relevant images from a catalog based on a query image together with a modifying caption is a challenging multimodal task that can particularly benefit domains like apparel shopping, where fine details and subtle variations may be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Eric Dodds , Jack Culpepper , Gaurav Srivastava

The burgeoning volume of digital content across diverse modalities necessitates efficient storage and retrieval methods. Conventional approaches struggle to cope with the escalating complexity and scale of multimedia data. In this paper, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Jixiang Luo

Image-text retrieval is a central problem for understanding the semantic relationship between vision and language, and serves as the basis for various visual and language tasks. Most previous works either simply learn coarse-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Chong Liu , Yuqi Zhang , Hongsong Wang , Weihua Chen , Fan Wang , Yan Huang , Yi-Dong Shen , Liang Wang

In this paper, we investigate the problem of retrieving images from a database based on a multi-modal (image-text) query. Specifically, the query text prompts some modification in the query image and the task is to retrieve images with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Muhammad Umer Anwaar , Egor Labintcev , Martin Kleinsteuber

Text-to-image retrieval aims to find the relevant images based on a text query, which is important in various use-cases, such as digital libraries, e-commerce, and multimedia databases. Although Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Zijun Long , Xuri Ge , Richard Mccreadie , Joemon Jose

In the past few years, cross-modal image-text retrieval (ITR) has experienced increased interest in the research community due to its excellent research value and broad real-world application. It is designed for the scenarios where the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Min Cao , Shiping Li , Juntao Li , Liqiang Nie , Min Zhang

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a complex task that aims to retrieve images based on a multimodal query. Typical training data consists of triplets containing a reference image, a textual description of desired modifications, and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Chuong Huynh , Jinyu Yang , Ashish Tawari , Mubarak Shah , Son Tran , Raffay Hamid , Trishul Chilimbi , Abhinav Shrivastava

Photo search, the task of retrieving images based on textual queries, has witnessed significant advancements with the introduction of CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining) model. CLIP leverages a vision-language pre training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Naresh Kumar Lahajal , Harini S

Image-Text Retrieval (ITR) is challenging in bridging visual and lingual modalities. Contrastive learning has been adopted by most prior arts. Except for limited amount of negative image-text pairs, the capability of constrastive learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Haoran Wang , Dongliang He , Wenhao Wu , Boyang Xia , Min Yang , Fu Li , Yunlong Yu , Zhong Ji , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang

Cross-modal retrieval is the task of retrieving samples of a given modality by using queries of a different one. Due to the wide range of practical applications, the problem has been mainly focused on the vision and language case, e.g. text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Jorge Sánchez , Rodrigo Laguna

Composed image retrieval (CIR), which formulates the query as a combination of a reference image and modified text, has emerged as a new form of image search due to its enhanced ability to capture user intent. However, training a CIR model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Ren-Di Wu , Yu-Yen Lin , Huei-Fang Yang

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is an emerging yet challenging task that allows users to search for target images using a multimodal query, comprising a reference image and a modification text specifying the user's desired changes to the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Xuemeng Song , Haoqiang Lin , Haokun Wen , Bohan Hou , Mingzhu Xu , Liqiang Nie

Composed image retrieval aims to find an image that best matches a given multi-modal user query consisting of a reference image and text pair. Existing methods commonly pre-compute image embeddings over the entire corpus and compare these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Zheyuan Liu , Weixuan Sun , Damien Teney , Stephen Gould

Image-text matching (ITM) is a fundamental problem in computer vision. The key issue lies in jointly learning the visual and textual representation to estimate their similarity accurately. Most existing methods focus on feature enhancement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Xuri Ge , Fuhai Chen , Songpei Xu , Fuxiang Tao , Jie Wang , Joemon M. Jose

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) facilitates image retrieval through a multimodal query consisting of a reference image and modification text. The reference image defines the retrieval context, while the modification text specifies desired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Zixu Li , Zhiheng Fu , Yupeng Hu , Zhiwei Chen , Haokun Wen , Liqiang Nie

Cross-modal retrieval between visual data and natural language description remains a long-standing challenge in multimedia. While recent image-text retrieval methods offer great promise by learning deep representations aligned across…